When I first went away to college, for whatever reason I became obsessed with browsing WhoSampled.com. I spent waaay too many nights checking how many of my favorite songs were built off samples.

Jason’s mix has got a couple of songs that I never knew were used as samples (Baby Huey’s “Hard Times” sampled by Biggie in “Gimme The Loot”) and a few that are immediately recognizable even to the casual rap fan (“Footsteps In The Dark” by The Isley Brothers sampled in Ice Cube’s “It Was A Good Day”). These classics are peppered alongside big modern pop hits and some laid back reggae, making lil’ Salillas’s picks a little bit random, but refreshing.